James W. von Brunn

"The gunman was identified by law enforcement officials as James W. von Brunn, who embraces various conspiracy theories involving Jews, blacks and other minority groups and has at times waged a personal war with the federal government.....
The gunman and the security guard were both taken to nearby George Washington University Hospital, with the gunman handcuffed to a gurney, witnesses said. The guard, Stephen T. Johns, died a short time later. Museum officials, who did not give Mr. Johns’ age, said he had worked there for six years.Publicly, the authorities did not immediately identify Mr. von Brunn as the suspect, but several law enforcement officials named him, and there were reports that his vehicle was found not far from the museum. Washington Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said the gunman was in critical condition.The Washington police chief, Cathy Lanier, said the gunman walked into the museum’s main entrance shortly before 1 p.m. and began shooting without warning. Within moments, at least one security guard was returning fire, and a total of five or six shots are believed to have been fired.Officials and others who track conspiracy theorists have long been familiar with Mr. von Brunn, whose latest address is believed to be in Eastern Maryland, in part because he maintains a Web site. He has claimed variously to be a member of Mensa, the high-I.Q. society; to have played varsity football at a Midwestern college, where he earned a degree in journalism; to have been a P.T. boat captain in World War II, and to be a painter and author.(Source: New York Times:www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11shoot.html?_r=1&hp)"

「【ワシントン＝黒瀬悦成】ワシントン市内のホロコースト博物館で１０日午後（日本時間１１日未明）、銃を持った男が侵入し警備員に発砲した。／警備員は病院に運ばれたが間もなく死亡。発砲した男も別の警備員に頭を撃たれ重体となっている。／米メディアの報道では、男はメリーランド州在住の白人至上主義活動家、ジェームズ・フォン・ブラン容疑者（８８）。猟銃またはライフル銃を使い、犯行当時、南北戦争で黒人奴隷制を支持した南軍の帽子をかぶっていたという。
／ブラン容疑者が運営するウェブサイトによると、同容疑者は第二次大戦で魚雷艇の艇長として従軍。ナチス・ドイツによるユダヤ人虐殺はなかった、とするホロコースト否定論者で、１９８１年にはワシントンの米連邦準備制度理事会（ＦＲＢ）ビルに銃を持って侵入し、禁固１１年の判決を受けるなど、白人至上主義者としては比較的名前が知られていた。／現場は、ホワイトハウスから南へ約１キロ・メートル。博物館には当時、多くの来場者が居合わせていたが、けが人はなかった。ギブス米大統領報道官は同日、記者団に対し、「オバマ大統領は事件を悲しんでいる」と述べた」（www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20090611-OYT1T00181.htm?from=navr）。

"Mr. von Brunn also claimed to have been victimized by a court system run by Jews and blacks. Before Wednesday, he was best known to law enforcement officials for walking into the Washington headquarters of the Federal Reserve System on Dec. 7, 1981, with a bag slung over the shoulder of his trench coat. A guard chased him to the second floor, where the Fed’s board was meeting, and found a revolver, a hunting knife and a sawed-off shotgun in the bag.Mr. von Brunn, who lived in Lebanon, N.H., at that time, told the police he wanted to take board members hostage to focus media attention on their responsibility for high interest rates and the nation’s economic difficulties. He was convicted in 1983 and served several years in prison for attempted kidnapping, burglary, assault and weapons charges.The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights organization, said on Wednesday that Mr. von Brunn is a racist and anti-Semite who has “a long history of associations with prominent neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.”Rabbis Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Abraham Cooper, an associate dean, said the attack at the museum “shows that the cancer of hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism is alive and well in America.”“It is deeply disturbing that one of America’s most powerful symbols of the memory of the Holocaust was selected as the site of the attack just days after President Obama accompanied Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to the Buchenwald death camp,” they said. (Source: New York Times:www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11shoot.html?_r=1&hp)""